The Settled Body Method®
What becomes possible when we stop assuming we are the problem?
We are always responding.
To spaces. People. Expectations. Possibilities.
What has happened before. What we think might happen next.
The things we notice. And plenty of things we don't.
Sometimes what looks like a problem within us becomes rather more interesting when we notice what we're responding to.
What if nothing needs deciding yet?
Change a condition and something else may become possible.
Move your body.
Change the pace.
Alter the support underneath you.
Ask a different question.
Let something be here without immediately doing anything about it.
Something changes.
Maybe only slightly.
But now there's different information available.
And from different information, there may be different possibilities.
This is some of the territory of The Settled Body Method®.
Settled doesn't mean calm.
It doesn't mean still.
Or relaxed.
Or comfortable.
A settled body can move.
Laugh.
Fidget.
Get angry.
Want something.
Change its mind.
Rest.
Leave.
Stay.
There is no correct way to feel settled.
We're not trying to get the body into the right state.
We're becoming more curious about what's actually here.
Your body gets a voice, not a veto.
A sensation is information.
A response can be noticed without becoming an instruction.
Something being present doesn't have to become the organising principle for everything that happens next.
There can be a little more space between:
This is here.
and
What do I choose?
What becomes available in that space?
Notice. Question. Choose.
Settled Body Method® isn't a set of instructions for how to do your body properly.
It's a body of work I founded and continue to develop through bodies, sessions, experiences, observation, enquiry and practice.
There are principles within it.
Ideas I'm following.
Things I know.
Things I'm questioning.
And probably quite a lot I haven't noticed yet.
It's alive.
And I intend to keep it that way.
Experience The Settled Body Method®
You don't need to understand any of this before experiencing it.
Quiet Floor is one expression of the work.
You can also encounter SBM through my private work and other things I create.